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Early Start Ends in Bike Crashing Hard
Early Start Ends in Bike Crashing Hard

16 Jan 2013, 15:09 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Early starts are followed by penalties and this goes for pretty much any type of competition, motorcycle racing included. However, it's technically impossible to do a wheelie if you're run...

 
Fines and Jail Time in Illinois for Apehangers and Wheelies
Fines and Jail Time in Illinois for Apehangers and Wheelies

4 Jan 2013, 10:37 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / As of January 1st 2013, wheelies and tall apehangers are illegal in Illinois. The Illinois Senate Bill 3452, passed in July last year has become effective, so if you're planning to do some stun...

 
Will Motorcycle Stunt Riding Officially Become a FIM Sport in 2013?
Will Motorcycle Stunt Riding Officially Become a FIM Sport in 2013?

28 Dec 2012, 11:07 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / XDL (Extreme Drift league) - the final frontier for 2013? With more and more riders involved in the freestyle motorcycle stunt business, it looks like this is finally going to be acknowledged as a m...

 
Biker Fails Wheelie on Bridge, Waves the Bike Goodbye into the River
Biker Fails Wheelie on Bridge, Waves the Bike Goodbye into the River

17 Dec 2012, 16:38 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It's always funny to see stunts failing right front the start and riders clinging onto their bikes, only to make the crash cause even more damage. Since the bike is already out of control, simp...

 
Asian Pillion Wheelie Starts Well, Ends Bad
Asian Pillion Wheelie Starts Well, Ends Bad

13 Dec 2012, 10:56 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Doing a pillion wheelie might be quite a tricky business, especially if the rider of the bike is not the skilled stuntman he thinks he is. And like pretty much all the similar occasional stunts, suc...

 
Old Recipe: Wheelie Fails, Rider Gets Hurt
Old Recipe: Wheelie Fails, Rider Gets Hurt

29 Nov 2012, 16:09 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / They say some of the old recipes will never change because they produce the most exquisite results. Well, that's true for food and so many other things, but I am sorry to say that this phrase i...

 
Yamaha R6 Rider Magic Tankslapper Recovery
Yamaha R6 Rider Magic Tankslapper Recovery

12 Nov 2012, 14:47 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Most of the guys who land a wheelie improperly at a high speed crash. That's not a sentence, it's pure statistics... and if yo don't believe me, just do a little internet survey of gu...

 
No Stunt Today for You, Sir
No Stunt Today for You, Sir

7 Nov 2012, 15:32 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Well, I guess I'll have to say time time and again: wheelies are nice'n'neat, but if you just feel like popping one in busy traffic, then you'd better be very good at this... or ...

 
Awesome Bike Stunt Duo Ends in Horrible Crash
Awesome Bike Stunt Duo Ends in Horrible Crash

3 Nov 2012, 11:51 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Stunt-riding is one of the most dangerous jobs around in the two-wheeled world. And it's not about all the spills and broken bones, and whatnot, as it is about the extremely brutal accident whi...

 
Russian Bikes Can Wheelie. And Crash.
Russian Bikes Can Wheelie. And Crash.

29 Oct 2012, 16:18 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Sometimes we wonder what's going on inside people's mind as they are pulling off the silliest stunts and some of them even get seriously injured. Adding in some booze and a motorcycle o...

 
KTM Superduke High-speed Crash on Highway POV
KTM Superduke High-speed Crash on Highway POV

27 Oct 2012, 10:58 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Wheelies on the highway are a bad idea, whether you land it safely or crash like our hero in this movie. It's not the wheelie itself, but the fact that the traffic is moving at high speed an...

 
ATV Runs From Rider After Failed Wheelie
ATV Runs From Rider After Failed Wheelie

17 Oct 2012, 12:21 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Sometimes when you go to your big bag of talent, you find that it’s all a bit empty. This is all fine and dandy if you’re a on four wheels and you scratch a wheel while parking, but on t...

 
Yamaha R6 Rider Shows Awesome Wheelie-then-crash Skills
Yamaha R6 Rider Shows Awesome Wheelie-then-crash Skills

15 Oct 2012, 15:26 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Popping wheelies and all sorts of tricks are surely fun as hell, but if one decides to perform such stunts in the city, he'd better be really skilled, since traffic can play nasty tricks someti...

 
Lucky Rider Makes it Safe During High-speed Wobble
Lucky Rider Makes it Safe During High-speed Wobble

15 Oct 2012, 14:20 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / There are quite few bikers with a decent amount of riding expertise who haven't experienced wobbling. Now, wobbling can occur in a multitude of situations, from hitting a pothole in the road...

 
Rider Nearly Run Over by Fellows After Wheelie Crash
Rider Nearly Run Over by Fellows After Wheelie Crash

10 Oct 2012, 15:44 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Wheelies, stunts of any kind and all, are fun. Fun to look at, and definitely an immense source of pride for the riders performing them. Nevertheless, when riding on a highway in a very large gro...

 
Underwater Wheelie Gets You Through
Underwater Wheelie Gets You Through

9 Oct 2012, 10:07 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / I must admit I raised an eyebrow when I first heard the term "underwater whelie", but after watching this movie, it all made sense... a lot of sense. ATVs are much fun, and for those ma...

 
Triumph Tiger 1050 Wheelie Breaks Frame
Triumph Tiger 1050 Wheelie Breaks Frame

5 Oct 2012, 11:25 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It's common knowledge a bike's frame is one of its sturdiest components as it has to hold everything in place and even the rider's/ luggage weight and all. Even more, the frame mu...

 
Motorcycle Wheelie Fail
Motorcycle Wheelie Fail

16 Mar 2012, 15:25 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A wheelie is a maneuver on a motorcycle in which the front wheel is raised off the ground. That means that you are only rolling on one wheel, the rear one, so you’d better be careful what you&...

 
1,800-hp Dune Buggy Wheelie Frenzy
1,800-hp Dune Buggy Wheelie Frenzy

5 Oct 2011, 09:02 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Are there any Wacky Races fans around here? We just need a loony crew, because we already have the machine: a 1,800 hp dune buggy. The adjacent video (we must thank Jalopnik for the scoop) allows us...

 
Ride of the Century 2011: Bikers Defy Police with Illegal Stunts
Ride of the Century 2011: Bikers Defy Police with Illegal Stunts

22 Sep 2011, 16:46 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Every bike enthusiasts probably thinks about two-wheeled stunts once on a while, but the piece of news you are about to see is about something much wilder. Lets look at things as if we were talki...